If he’s old enough to write messages like that he’s old enough to known it’s wrong.

Certainly he needs the strongest possible punishment and some intervene to try and understand if he’s just an idiot or a little narcissist in the making.

The authorities should probably keep tabs on him for a long time.

Hopefully he grows up, but needs to understand actions have consequences.

These are hurty comments on the Internet by an immature boy and all this is getting a little hyperbolic.

Next I'm expecting someone to suggest cutting his hands off.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Really?? I spent the '80s in a Communist state and they forced us to do this, it was exactly the same. People swear at people all the time, you are exaggerating. Whether anger for race, physical appearance or favorite football team, all swearing and hatred are bad. We make too much case when someone does it because of race.

That's not even a threat, lol. It's a child's play. And if he sent Klu Klux Klan pics so what?!? I've been called a "fat c***" or an "ugly c***" (well, in my own language), both refering to my physical aspect as much as the skin colour racism refers to some people of colour.

I never made too much fuss about it and sane people shouldn't do it.

Zaha is a beautiful young man and he knows this and should be confident. The colour of a person is not important.

But there is too much hypocrisy in western media regarding racism. Why not do the same against all sorts of discrimination?? When someone gets called fat or ugly or stupid or too skinny in an insulting way, often by hateful colleagues or other children, the psychological effects are probably greater than when insulted about race.

It's an insult, it's bad, the kid shouldn't do it. But to ask for him to be permanently banned is childish. People insult all the time for physical reasons or stuff other people can't change (because we were born like this or God made us like this).

I just feel like there is an agenda cause racism is regarded as the worst of the worst insult. It's not. There are many other worse. And yeah,I've also suffered racist abuse too, colored people made fun of me for being white. It wasn't ok.
I do not condone any type of racism. Sorry if I offended anyone, just my 2 cents,but things have gone really wrong in the western media in the last 10 years.

Edited by mattteo (12 Jul 2020 9.22pm)

Surely we should be awarded the points as Wilf and the team would have been traumatised by the fascist blitzkrieg unleashed by a twelve-year-old boy. Sakho certainly played like he had a chip on his shoulder.

Edited by georgenorman (12 Jul 2020 9.44pm)

At the end of the day when comments like black c*** and the like are directed at someone along with klan imagery and reference to a persons home it extends beyond the insult norm. Who is to know whether it's some nutter who's going to escalate things or a misguided kid looking for attention. It becomes inevitable that it's going to be investigated. He looked for attention, he got attention. Hopefully he'll learn something from it.

I agree with jeeagles, turn up, have a word with the family and it's very unlikely he'll be targeting anyone in the same way again. If it's something he's picked up from family attitudes they should be ashamed of themselves and what it's resulted in for others and their child. If it's just an attention seeking kid though, the coverage will likely result in him adjusting his attitude and learning that you're better off treating people well than looking to attack or demean.

This all seems a bit beyond a 12 year old to me. Seems a bit dated.

Does the word "c**n" (as in "C**nflakes" still exist in English? I'd hope that word had been eradicated years ago.

Better to look at the parent(s) using the boy's (or girl's) account.